 | Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1856 - 332 pages
...is still prepar'd for death : Untied unto the world by care Of public fame, or private breath. Who hath his life from rumours freed, Whose conscience...Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great. This man is " " Stop, stop, stop !" cried Mrs. Brent. " Though the lines arc admirable,... | |
 | English poetry - 1856 - 754 pages
...ever understood , How deepest wounds are giv'n by praise, Nor rules of state, but rules of good. Who hath his life from rumours freed, Whose conscience...Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great. Who God doth late and early pray , More of his grace than gifts to lend : And entertains... | |
 | Songs - 1856 - 712 pages
...never understood How deepest wounds are given by praise ; Nor rules of state, but rules of good ; Who hath his life from rumours freed, Whose conscience...Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great ; Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend ; And entertains... | |
 | 1856 - 332 pages
...are given by pnufc, Nor rules of state, but rules of good. Who has his life from rumours frwd, Whoso conscience is his strong retreat •, Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin moke oppressors great ; Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend . And... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...praise, Nor rules of state, but rules of good. Who hath his life from rumours freed, Whose conacience is his strong retreat ; Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great. Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace and gifts to lend ; And entertains... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 pages
...ever understood ; How deepest wounds are given by praise, Nor rules of state, but rules of good. Who hath his life from rumours freed, Whose conscience...Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great. Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertains... | |
 | John Hamilton THOM - 1858 - 662 pages
...still prepared for death ; Untied to this vain world by care Of public fame or private breath : 8 Who hath his life from rumours freed, Whose conscience...Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great : 4 Who God doth kte and early pray More of his grace than goods to lend ; To crave... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1924 - 774 pages
...still prepared for death ; Untied unto the world with care Of princely love or vulgar breath ; Who hath his life from rumours freed, Whose conscience is his strong retreat ; 10 Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make accusers great ; Who envieth none whom... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - American literature - 1926 - 1746 pages
...never understood How deepest wounds are given by praise, Nor rules of state, but rules of good; Who ber oppressors great; Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend ; And entertains... | |
 | Periodicals - 1893 - 580 pages
...deepest wounds are given by praise, Nor rules of state, but rules of good. Who hath his life from humors freed, Whose conscience is his strong retreat ; Whose...flatterers feed, Nor ruin make accusers great. Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertains the harmless day... | |
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This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all. 
